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by c-smile 8y ago
You had NATO that suddenly lost its grounds when USSR collapsed. Just to keep it afloat you would need to invent new "enemy" for it. When remnants of USSR were in ruins Middle East was wildfired, that stopped people thinking &quo
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by c-smile 8y ago
"Invalidate news organizations" started long before the Internet. As an example: https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/meet-guy-sims-fitch-a-fake-w...
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by c-smile 8y ago
"The company announced that in the latest round of fundraising it had raised a cool 250 million yuan ($36) from investors that included government agencies." I want that too. Just if someone else need their national browser too -
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by c-smile 8y ago
Why such a surprise? 20 years ago Windows had .dlg resources that define layout and content of dialog windows. .dlg is just a binary representation of serialized window DOM. 16 years ago Visual Basic had .frm files that are close to what no
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by c-smile 8y ago
Just in case you can do that with Sciter already. In your CSS to define div.my { behavior:my-widget; } While loading HTML that contains <div class="my"> you will get SC_ATTACH_BEHAVIOR callback with the DOM event ha
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by c-smile 8y ago
I mean binary dependency here - external DLLs. But in any case I am building sciter.dll as with Skia (sdk/bin/skia32/) as without it (sdk/bin/32/)
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by c-smile 8y ago
> … HTML UI where the assets are controlled … Real life HTML UI requires a bit more than standard HTML/CSS. At some point you will discover that you will need something like this: elem.popup(popupElem, at) to show arbit
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by c-smile 8y ago
Just in case, here is Sciter rendering HTML 3.2 specification document using Direct2D/DirectX backend on 3840x2160 screen: https://sciter.com/sciter-fps/ Real FPS is shown in window's caption (490 FPS). Scite
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by c-smile 8y ago
I have a feeling that Dart is just D (or at least they are comparable syntax and feature wise). So is the question: why Dart? Or is its goal to be a Java-on-Android killer? So always to have some [inspectable] bytecodes as a delivery media
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by c-smile 8y ago
> I know Microsoft has done them before And they added toggle switches to UWP ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/controls... ) that are usability disasters IMO. When such switch used
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by c-smile 8y ago
This observable.on("click", observerFunc); // or observable.addEventListener(...); is an executable statement. And this class Widget : Element { event click { … observer's code … } }
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by c-smile 8y ago
IMO modern web language should have some notion of events as in my Sciter ( https://sciter.com/event-handling/ ) for example: event click $(table > thead > tr > th) { // click on table he
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by c-smile 8y ago
"gpu-accelerated cross platform" is not that hard as it sounds. Here is an example of GPU rendering with support of Acrylic(Windows) / Vibrancy (MacOS) so popular in terminal implementations: https://sciter.com&#x
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by c-smile 8y ago
I've created Notes app for that purpose too: https://notes.sciter.com/ It allows to insert check list in any note (that is HTML under the hood)
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“World’s most efficient” bicycle drivetrain unveiled at Eurobike(newatlas.com)
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by c-smile 8y ago
There are alternatives to Tiger Parenting … I had two friends at school and met exactly same situation visiting their families one day. We were given some homework to do... Jewish family: Misha, you are so smart, why you cannot solve this e
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by c-smile 8y ago
TL;DR: that's tough, sigh. For the Sciter project ( https://sciter.com ) I did exactly that: created abstract graphics C++ library that wraps all supported backends: 1. Direct2D and GDI+ on Windows; 2. Skia on Windows, Mac
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by c-smile 8y ago
I still have somewhere Walter's Zortech C++ that was life saver for me at one point. H/W: i386 machine 25 mhz, 2mb RAM. Internet: No OS: MSDOS IDE: MultiEditor + Zortech C++ Where: in the middle of nowhere - small town between Eur
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by c-smile 8y ago
Interesting, never saw such way of std::vector/std::map allocations: g->children = new std::vector<struct gridChild *>; g->indexof = new std::map<uiControl *, size_t>; At least needless level of indirecti
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by c-smile 8y ago
Damn, the picture "killing of glorious idea by disgusting facts" again. Sigh, will wait for the next "deformator of space/time curvature" device for the human race to reach stars ...
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by c-smile 8y ago
Repeating "just the tip of the iceberg" three times in this discussion already looks like programming of public opinion kind of thing. Without proof of any sort. That trick is as old as the Church that invented it for the obvious
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by c-smile 8y ago
At Singularity time "Super AI" will provide us everything people will need for living. Automated food production, all that. Human will be excluded from production chain. Communism will come, want we it or not. And so what 10 billi
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by c-smile 8y ago
I am not saying that you don't need markup at all. Window content can still use markup. But it is not clear why do you need it for defining Application and Window abstractions. In browsers DOM element is a subject of style applicab
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by c-smile 8y ago
"JSX is JS" It is not, https://facebook.github.io/jsx/ It is handled by transpiler - one more parsing layer in loading sequence of your application.
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by c-smile 8y ago
70MB is too much for mainly native application. For the comparison, IDE sketch (editor with syntax highlighting) from Sciter (HTML/CSS/script engine) SDK ( https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/m
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by c-smile 8y ago
Am I the only one who think that this: class Example extends Component { render() { return ( <App> <Window title="Example" size={{w: 300, h: 300}} menuBar={false}>
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by c-smile 8y ago
"this tech allow devs to be lazy" Not just Electron but Sciter too in that sense. "electron can have a small fingerprint if the dev team is carefull/good enough" Only to some extent. You will have two separate proce
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by c-smile 9y ago
Or at least something similar to Moscow Metro by scale: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/moscow-metro-stations-davi...
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by c-smile 9y ago
Was it tested in MS Edge? Does not quite work there...
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by c-smile 9y ago
"infer based off similarities to English words" English and French are both originated from Latin languages so are similarities. Try to read Turkish web site: http://www.mfa.gov.tr/default.tr.mfa , will its Latin

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